[mythtv-users] Supervideo and miniplug to RCA

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:34 AM, gonzalo diethelm <gdiethelm at dcv.cl> wrote:
> I want to (temporarily) use an old laptop as a front-end. It is an old
> Asus, and the (old) TV has one set of RCA inputs (the typical ones:
> yellow for video, red and white for audio).
>
> For video, the laptop has a supervideo output and I have seen cables at
> Radio Shack that convert from supervideo to RCA; these cables have no
> circuitry in between, just a piece of wire with a supervideo plug on one
> end and a RCA plug on the other. Do these cables work, or do I need a
> more sophisticated video converter?
>
> The laptop has a single miniplug output for audio, marked as S-PDIF
> (from memory). Will it work if I plug another simple cable with a stereo
> miniplug on one end and two RCA plugs on the other? What happens to the
> sound amplification / impedance in this case?
>
> Thanks for any hints and best regards.

I think its actually "separate video" and usually referred to as
s-video (at least I guess thats what you are talking about).